Dr. John A. Allocca, Copyright 2022
ISBN 9798831915679
172 - 6" x 9" pages
Everyone wants inner peace. It is the lack of inner peace that causes hatred and violence. For thousands of years various disciplines have structured long studies, mentoring, and meditations of some sort to achieve the goal of inner peace. Most of these disciplines are found in eastern cultures. The fast-paced western society has shown little interest in them, with some small exceptions. What is the solution? The solution or part of the solution is to develop a methodology that comprises of technology and some aspects of the various disciplines that will be useful and of interest to people in western society.
Almost everyone in western society has a cell phone with a camera, which makes photography easy. Photography is a tool used in this methodology to to explore what people feel inside. Any camera or cell phone can be used. What are you called to photograph? What emotions does the photograph bring to the surface? How does it make you feel? This book will help to guide you through this process. This book contains two of Dr. Allocca's personal journeys: 2009 and 2018. A 2019 addendum has been added to the book.
Dr. Allocca is a medical research scientist and biophysicist with many years of personal experience in photography and with some knowledge of Buddhism, Shamanism, Yoga, self-discovery, and personal growth.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Brain Biofield Technology
The Genesis Meditation
The Journey Started in Sedona
Photographic Journeying
Journey to the East 2009
Journey to the South 2009
Journey to the West 2009
Journey to the North 2009
Journey to the East 2018
Journey to the South 2018
Journey to the West 2018
Journey to the North 2018
Your Personal Journey Guidance - Part 1 - Beginning with a Camera
Your Personal Journey Guidance - Part 2 - Beginning Assignments
Your Personal Journey Guidance - Part 3 - East
Your Personal Journey Guidance - Part 4 - South
Your Personal Journey Guidance - Part 5 - West
Your Personal Journey Guidance - Part 6 - North
Your Personal Journey Guidance - Part 7 - Journey Reflection
Addendum 2019
Addendum 2020
Addendum 2021
Addendum 2022
All of the photos and diagrams in this book are in full color.
Introduction to Astronomy and Photography (Black and White Book)
Dr. John A. Allocca, Copyright 2017
ISBN 978-1547107346
161 - 6" x 9" pages
This book covers the basics of astronomy and photography
Table of Contents:
Part 1 - Astronomy Basics
Introduction
Learning Astronomy
Binoculars
Binocular Collimation
Telescopes and Spotting Scopes
Magnification
Field of View
Light Gathering
Tripods and Mounts
Filters
Polar Alignment with an Equatorial Mount
Star Charts for the Northern Hemisphere
Constellations
Moon Phases
Perspective of Earth and the Universe
Part 2 - Photography Basics
Photography Basics
Astrophotography
DSLR Astrophotography
Backyard Bird Photography
A Beginner's Guide to Imaging the Moon
Dr. John A. Allocca, Copyright 2021
ISBN 9798748615884
332 - 6" x 9" pages
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Awakening
Consciousness
What is Consciousness?
Mindfulness and Ego Control Battles
Basic Buddhism
Brain Biofield Technology
The Genesis Meditation
Desktop Yoga
Perspective of the Earth and the Universe
The Electromagnetic Spectrum
Music and Nature
Sacred Geometry
Nutritional Guidelines
The Journey Started in Sedona
Basic Shamanism and the Vision Quest Journey
Dr. Allocca's Vision Quest - East 2009
Dr. Allocca's Vision Quest - South 2009
Dr. Allocca's Vision Quest - West 2009
Dr. Allocca's Vision Quest - North 2009
Dr. Allocca's Vision Quest - East 2018
Dr. Allocca's Vision Quest - South 2018
Dr. Allocca's Vision Quest - West 2018
Dr. Allocca's Vision Quest - North 2018
Dr. Allocca's Vision Quest 2019
Dr. Allocca's Vision Quest 2020
Your Personal Journey Guidance - Part 1 - Beginning with a Camera
Your Personal Journey Guidance - Part 2 - Beginning Assignments
Your Personal Journey Guidance - Part 3 - East
Your Personal Journey Guidance - Part 4 - South
Your Personal Journey Guidance - Part 5 - West
Your Personal Journey Guidance - Part 6 - North
Your Personal Journey Guidance - Part 7 - Journey Reflection
Paumanok Poems and Pictures of Long Island - Kindle Edition
Paumanok Poems and Pictures of Long Island is an anthology of poetry about relationships, yours, mine, married to photographs, a years worth, all artists from Long Island.
"Paumanok-Transitions" is a tour de force - an impressive performance by poets, photographers and the editor and co-editors! This year-long anthology of poems and photographs begins each month with Whitman's words which transition the reader from the past to the present. The illuminating poems in this anthology lead the reader backward and forward at the same time - an oxymoron, a feat only possible with words. The poetic words in these pages document transitions of the personal, spiritual, social, sexual, emotional and political, akin to Whitman's own journey - when he went forth as a child from his Birthplace into the world as a builder's apprentice, journalist, essayist, newspaper founder, Civil War nurse, novelist, poet and Comerado. His fellow travelers in this volume vividly relate their transitions with spontaneous awareness or aching recall - involving a movement or shift that is transformative for both poet and reader.
Cynthia Shor, Executive Director, Walt Whitman Birthplace Association